Swing



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Patented Nov. 8, 1949 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE SWING Arthur Henry, St. Paul, Minn.

Application October 5, 1945, Serial No. 620,541

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to swings designed primarily for use by small children, one of the objects being to provide a simple and durable swing which can be adjusted to position the seat portion at any desired distance from the floor or other surface thereunder, said seat being carried by a hanger having means for attaching it to an overhead beam, the hanger being adjustable in length.

A further object is to provide the swing with a foot pedal so mounted and connected that when downward pressure is exerted thereagainst by the occupant of the seat, the hanger carrying the seat will be given an oscillating or swinging motion.

Another important object is to provide a swing of the character described wherein a flexible actuating connection embodied in the invention will be spaced from the swing proper a suflicient distance to discourage its being tampered with or grasped by the child using the swing, thereby reducing substantially the possibility of injury.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim, it being understood that changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the swing.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is an enlarged section on line 3-3, Figure 2.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, l designates the seat portion of the swing which can be of any desired configuration and, in the present instance, is formed of a thick board cut out to simulate a horse on which a saddle portion 2 is fastened.

The seat portion is extended between spaced strips 3 which are secured thereto fixedly in any manner desired. These strips extend a short distance below the seat portion I to form an arm 4 and extending transversely through the arm is a pivot bolt 5 on the end portions of which is mounted a bifurcated pedal 6 adapted to swing upwardly and downwardly on the bolt. The pedal is connected to the pivot bolt 5 at the rear end of the pedal. Suitable spacing means, such as washers 1, can be used for hold- ID or the like.

A bracket H is adapted to be fastened securely to a beam l2 or the like and this bracket has depending ears l3 through which is extended a pivot pin l4 engaged by the upper member l5 of the hanger. This upper hanger member or section has a second intermediate section It adjustably held thereto and depending therefrom, the parts being joined by means of a bolt H or the like adapted to be inserted through any one of a series of openings formed in the section l6, as indicated at l8. This section I6 is also adjustably joined to the lower intermediate section 9 by means of a desired number of bolts [9 or the like. Obviously, by providing series of openings in these sections, parts of the hanger can be adjustably joined and then clamped together firmly, thereby to increase or reduce the distance between the bracket II and the seat portion l.

A handle which can be in the form of a short rod 20, is extended through the strips forming the lowermost parts of the hanger and is positioned where it can be reached conveniently by the occupant of the saddle 2.

The portions of the pedal 6 are connected at those ends remote from the bolt 5 by cross bar 2| and a rope 22 is joined to this bar. This rope is guided over a pulley 23 which is suspended from the joist or beam H or other top structure at a point in front of the bracket I I and at a distance from the upper end of the hanger substantially equal to the length of the pedal 6, as may be clearly seen by reference to Figure 1. From this pulley the rope is extended backwardly and joined to the upper portion of the hanger, as shown particularly in Figure 1. The pulley constitutes the only engagement of the rope intermediate the ends of the rope, and thus it is seen that the portion of the rope extending between the pulley and front end of the pedal will remain parallel to the hanger and spaced therefrom at all times during operation of the device, effectively discouraging the user from grasping the rope and being possibly injured thereby.

It is to be understood that when installing this swing, the hanger must first be adjusted in length so that when it is suspended from a bracket ll attached to the ceiling or other overhead structure, the saddle portion 2 will be at a desired distance from the floor or other surface under the swing. Pulley 23 is then placed in position and a rope of' proper length selected, and when the person using the swing is mounted on the saddle portion 2, the swing can be caused to oscillate simply by depressing the portions with the feet of the user. At the same time, the handle 20, will be grasped by the user and can be employed to accelerate the swinging movement;

Importance is attached to the fact .that the main portions of this article can be madeentirely of wood so that the cost of production is not great able a's'to' length, Ine'ans piv'otally connecting the upper end of thehanger to a supporting structure, a seat portion extended throu gliand fixedly joined to the" mwr'portion of the hanger, a bifurcated pedal pivotally joined at its rear end to the lower portion of the hanger and extending forwardly therefrom, upstanding guards along the inner sides of the pedal and lapping the seat portion, a flexible actuating connection connected at its lower end to the front end of the pedal, and at its upper end to the upper portion of the hanger, and a guide secured to said supporting structure forwardly of the upper end of th'liangei" and. at a distancether'e'from approximately'equal to the length'o'f the-pedal',-the flexi- 'ble connection being movably engaged intermediate its ends by the guide, the guide constituting the only engagement of the flexible connection 

